Mazmur 139:11

139:11 If I were to say, “Certainly the darkness will cover me, ¹ 

and the light will turn to night all around me,” ² 

[139:11]  ¹ tn The Hebrew verb שׁוּף (shuf), which means “to crush; to wound,” in Gen 3:15 and Job 9:17, is problematic here. For a discussion of attempts to relate the verb to Arabic roots, see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 251. Many emend the form to יְשׂוּכֵּנִי (yesukkeniy), from the root שׂכך (“to cover,” an alternate form of סכך), a reading assumed in the present translation.

[139:11]  ² tn Heb “and night, light, around me.”